Paz Errazuriz Körner, Chilean photographer and teacher born in 1944 in Santiago de Chile, who has dabbled mainly in the use of photography in black and white and contemporary. She's part of the so-called "Group 8" art collective that also includes Leonora Vicuña, Alexis Diaz, Claudio Pérez, Miguel Navarro, Javier Godoy, Álvaro Alexander Wagner and Hoppe.

She studied at the Cambridge Institute of Education and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, from where he graduated as an elementary school teacher. In the field of photography she began without formal studies, but then he studied at the International Center of Photography in New York.

Jim Marshall, American photographer born in 1936 who made photographs of rock artists and made reports on important concerts.

He was the only photographer who could enter the dressing room of The Beatles on their last concert and took some of his most famous photographs to Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones or Johnny Cash. One of the most widespread photographs of Hendrix burning his guitar at Monterey festival, photographs or Woodstock festival, portraits to Cash in San Quentin prison have made him one of the most prominent photographers of musical stories. Among the musical artists who photographed are in addition Janis Joplin, The Who, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry or Jim Morrison. Although he lived in California died in New York in 2010.

Andy Goldstein, Argentine photographer born in 1943. His best known work is "Live on Land", a series of 66 large-format photographs by portraying families in informal settlements in 14 Latin American countries.

Interested in photography from an early age, opened his first photographic studio in 1968 on Avenida Las Heras, Buenos Aires. In 1975 created the School of Creative Photography, in order to improve professional training was underdeveloped in those years.

She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts of New York University.

Her degrees include a B.F.A. in photography from Philadelphia College of Art in 1975; a M.F.A. in photography from Pratt Institute in 1979; a M.A. in art history from City College of New York in 1986; and a Ph.D. from the Cultural Studies Program of George Mason University in 2001.

Elizabeth Gill Lui (born Nancy Elizabeth Gill, 1951) in Yonkers, New York is an American photographer and artist.

As a fine arts minor at Colorado College, Gill Lui was creating highly detailed and graphic lithography and engraving, but by her late 20s, she began exploring photography in printmaking. After a devastating car accident in 1979, she dedicated herself to her creative work, studying at a graduate level in architectural photography at Harvard.

Elizabeth Gill Lui's photographic work has been widely published and exhibited in museums and galleries.

Elsa Thiemann, German photographer born in 1910 in Toruń, East Prussia (now Poland), whose birth name was Franke. She was part of the prestigious Bauhaus school.

Between 1922 and 1926 Elsa Franke was a student of the school in Neukölln. Her art teacher, Margarete Kubicka, soon recognized her talent for drawing. Between 1929 and 1931 she was a student at the Bauhaus. There she received photography classes by Walter Peterhans attending drawing classes of Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. Then she returned to Berlin and worked as a press photographer. She died in 1981.

Sebastião Salgado, Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist born in 1944.

After a somewhat itinerant childhood, Salgado initially trained as an economist, earning a master’s degree in economics from the University of São Paulo in Brazil. He began work as an economist, often traveling to Africa on missions for the World Bank, when he first started seriously taking photographs.

He has traveled in over 100 countries for his photographic projects. He has been awarded numerous major photographic prizes in recognition of his accomplishments.

Wilson Alwyn "Snowflake" Bentley (February 9, 1865 – December 23, 1931) is one of the first known photographers of snowflakes. He perfected a process of catching flakes on black velvet in such a way that their images could be captured before they either melted or sublimated.Kenneth G. Libbrecht notes that the techniques used by Bentley to photograph snowflakes are essentially the same as used today, and that whilst the quality of his photographs reflect the technical limitations of the equipment of the era "he did it so well that hardly anybody bothered to photograph snowflakes for almost 100 years". The broadest collection of Bentley's photographs is held by the Jericho Historical Society in his home town, Jericho, Vermont.Bentley donated his collection of original glass-plate photomicrographs of snow crystals to the Buffalo Museum of Science. A portion of this collection has been digitized and organized into a digital library. He died in 1931.Wikipedia

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